St. John's Cemetery (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Explained

St. John’s Cemetery
Established:1839
Location:6 Bedford Highway, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Country:Canada
Coordinates:44.6622°N -63.625°W
Owner:Parish of St. John's Anglican Church, Halifax
Graves:12,000+
Website:http://stjohnscemetery.ca/
Findagraveid:639384

St. John's Cemetery is a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia and forms a series of cemeteries in the Fairview area of Halifax, next to Fairview Lawn Cemetery and Baron de Hirsch Cemetery.

Opened in 1839, it is the final resting place for a few prominent Anglicans in Halifax:

The cemetery contains war graves of 70 Commonwealth service personnel, 62 from World War I (of whom 48 lie in the Naval Plot in Section Q) and 8 from World War II.[2]

It is also the resting place of many people killed by the 1917 Halifax Explosion. A columbarium was added in 1994[1] on the site of the former St. Johns Anglican Church of Fairview.

External links

44.6622°N -63.625°W

Notes and References

  1. http://www.stjohnshalifax.ca/cemetery.html Cemetery
  2. Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Cemetery Report